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Conventional microbiological techniques used in the detection and identification of Salmonella infections in chicken samples are relatively lengthy. In Zambia today, the situation has even been made worse by the indiscriminate use of antibiotics. Detection of Salmonella from such treated birds...

The use of backfill in underground mines has increasingly become an integral part of overall mining operations all over the world. This has largely been driven by the need to increase ore recovery and productivity. The underground mining activities have given rise to creation of large volumes of...

Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the developmental differences that arise from different patterns of child care. The influence of different patterns of care was investigated on the caregiving environment, security of attachment, maternal sensitivity, cognitive development and...

Towards the end of 1948. the Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland Joint Pub 1icat ions Bureau which had replaced the African Literature Committee spelt out the production of literature in the indigenous languages as one of its major goals. Accord ins to John Mwanakatwe (1989). 40 percent of the...

The study targeted universities, higher learning institutions, research centers and some of the Zambian Libraries Consortium (ZALICO) Institutional library members in Lusaka, Central and Copper belt provinces of Zambia. The study had one objective, which was to find out why there was no any kind...

There were about 40.3 million people living with HIV/AIDS in the world by the end of 2005, and approximately 95 per cent of them live in developing countries. During 2004 alone nearly three million people died of AIDS related illnesses in the world and a similar number of deaths were experienced...

This study has investigated the sustainability of Zambia’s domestic debt (mainly composed of Government securities). Most of Zambia’s external debt has been forgiven and donors have put in place measures to avoid a repeat of an accumulation of an unsustainable external debt stock. Zambia’s...

Attempts to develop Threshold Limit Values together with the correlation between results of various sampling instruments are described. The main objectives of the investigations were: to establish the relationship between dust exposure and the development of pneumoconiosis, to study the effect of...

Ponseti technique as a management method of Congenital Talipes equinovarus had not been evaluated as a treatment tool for the clubfoot in Zambia.The study set out to look at the early clinical outcome of Ponseti management of virgin idiopathic clubfoot.The study was a prospective cohort study...

This is a prospective study carried out in the Orthopaedic Unit of the Department of Surgery at the University Teaching Hospital.The aim was to determine the effects of tenotomy of the tendons of tibialis posterior and Achilles in the correction of clubfoot which had resisted non-operative...